Joe Manchin: “We are asking the money to flow not based on population but based on need, where the greatest occurrences are.”

We’re trying to get a person who can be committed to — and totally committed to – being an independent with an independent voice.

We’re not trying to start another party.

I truly believed that, if in power, Republicans would uphold the filibuster, the last guardrail preventing total partisan rule.

The way the parties have weaponized the political process today, they make it impossible to have a 'D' or an 'R' next to your name and speak to the other side.